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G. H. MOSER.

WATER MELON HOLDER.

No. 379,903. Patented M81220, 1888.

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STATES ATENT N ITE GEORGE H. MOSER, OF BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES R. DAKE, OF SAME PLACE.

WATERMELON-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,903, dated March 20, 1888.

Application filed June 20, 1867. Serial No. 241,9l3. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: a melon or package. Fig. 2 is a side view of Be it known that I, GEORGE E. MOSER, of the same under the same conditions. Fig. 3 Belleville, in the county of St. Clair and State represents a side View of the holder after he of Illinois, have invented a \Vatermeloning applied. Fig. 4 is an end view of the 5 Holder, of which the following is a specificasame after being applied. Fig. 5 represents a tion. perspective view of the holder after being ap- This invention is for the purpose of enabling plied.

; a person to carry by hand a watermelon. or This invention consists ofa single wire bent l other like object conveniently. Heretofore into an oblong, the average size of which ob- 10 there has been no appliance adapted to this long is thirty-six inches long by three and oneend which could be manufactured at a cost halfinches broad, the long parallels of which sufficiently small to justify the seller of an are held together and braced apart by two article in furnishing the same to his customer cross-pieces of wire (0 c in all the figures) gratis-at a cost so small as to justify a single placed along their course. At one extremity 15 usage--as is done with wooden butter-dishes, of this oblong is strung a cylindrical handfan ey candy boxes, and the like. piece, (see bin all the figures,) of wood or other The invention consists of an oblong of wire, appropriate material, three and one-halfinches the size of which is (the holder may be of valong by five-eighths of an inch in diameter, rious sizes, the average being about as here the cross-piece at the epposite end of the ob- 20 stated) thirty-six (36) inches long by three and long being so depressed within the oblong as one'half (3%) inches broad, the thirty-six-inch to form a slot at each of the two angles at that parallels of wire being braced and united by end of the appliance. (a a, Fig. 1.) two cross-pieces of wire placed twelve inches The appliance, including all cross-pieces, apart, and each cross-piece twelve inches from may be made of one unbroken length of wire by 25 an extremity of the oblongi. 0., equidistant making the intermediate cross-pieces double. from each other and from the extremities of The ends of the wire may be united at such pcthe appliance. \Vc now have presented, pracsition as to be afterward hidden by the wooden tically, two parallels of wire thirty-six inches hand-piece. long and three and one-half inches apart, held The wire used in the manufacture of this in 50 together and braced apart by four cross-pieces vention may be of iron or other metal, genof the same wire, placed one at each extremity erally of No. 18 gage, but varying according of the parallels, the remaining two at intervals to the size, weight, and nature of the object to of twelve inches along the course of what is be held and carried. now an oblong of wire. The cross-piece at To apply the holder, it should be placed up- 35 one extremity of the oblong is sunk about oneon the floor or counter, as seen in top view at third of an inch within the ends of the long Fig. 1. The watermelon (or other object) parallels of wire in such a manner as to form should be placed crosswise on the holder at a slot at each of the two angles of that extremabout its middle portion, the hand-piece taken 0 ity, as may be seen at a a, Figure 1, in the acin the right hand, and the opposite end of the 0 companying drawings; and upon the cross holder in the left, when, by a slight twist, the piece of wire at the opposite extremity is handle should be looped through the opposite strung a cylindrical wooden hand-piece about end at about the point marked (1 in Fig. 1,

i five-eighths of an inch in diameter and three when the long parallels will unavoidably slip 5 and one-half inches long, this hand-piece into the slots before mentioned. (ca, Figs. 1

5 being strung upon the wire the same as the and 5.) The holder, thus looped upon the obcommon wooden hand-piece upon the wire ject which it is intended to hold, is drawn handle of an ordinary wooden bucket, (b in all tightly upon such object, the free extremity the figures.) (the handle) being then bent at a right angle In the accompanying drawings, in which in the slots in which it rests, (a a, Fig. 5,) thus 50 similar letters of reference indicate like parts locking the holder on the object held. The on the appliance, Fig. 1 is a top view of the inholder will now appear as shown in side view vention as it appears before being applied to at Fig. 3 and in perspective view at Fig. 5;

and thus locked, the appliance will securely 100p thus formed may be wrapped about the hold even a spherical object, and that under package and throughits end passed the handle, 10 very rough and careless handling. so as to draw the wire tightly around the What I claim is-- package, as described.

5 A package-holder formed of one continuous GEORGE H. MOSER.

wire bent into parallel lines held apart by Witnesses: braces or spacers and the ends held in oppo- JOHN T. TAYLOR, site ends of a tubular handle, whereby the wire MARK WARD. 

